Erin

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I guess there are never enough books.”
― John Steinbeck, A John Steinbeck Encyclopedia

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“How can I teach my boys the value and beauty of language and thus communication when the President himself reads westerns exclusively and cannot put together a simple English sentence? (John Steinbeck, in a private letter written during the Eisenhower administration)”
― John Steinbeck